Subseasonal characteristics of diurnal variation in summer monsoon rainfall over central Eastern China

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 6684-6695

  Yuan, Weihua ^a   Yu, Rucong ^b   Chen, Haoming ^b   Li, Jian ^b   Zhang, Minghua ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIURNAL VARIATION; EASTERN CHINA; MONSOON RAINFALL; MONSOON RAINS; RAIN GAUGE DATA; RAINFALL EVENT; SHARP CONTRAST; SUMMER MONSOON RAINFALL;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; GAGES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

RAIN;

DIURNAL VARIATION; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER;

CHINA;

EID: 79251567101     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3805.1     Document Type: Article

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